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FILE - Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrives for a news conference about new settlement construction in the Israel-occupied West Bank near Maale Adumim, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

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A general view shows the E1 area, an open tract of land east of Jerusalem, between the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, left and the occupied West Bank town of Eizariya, right, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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CORRECTS DAY Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks to journalists during a press conference about new settlement construction in the Israel-occupied West Bank near Maale Adumim, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

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Campaign posters for far-right Israeli lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich, now the Minister of Finance, is strung across a road sign marking an entrance to an area under Palestinian control, near the West Bank town of Nablus, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Smotrich assumed new powers from the military over the occupied territory this year. As the first minister to oversee civilian life in the West Bank, his role amounts to a recognition that Israel's occupation is not temporary, but permanent, observers say. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo, File)

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Palestinian journalists run away from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers towards Palestinians after they attack Israeli cars in the West Bank town of Hawara, Friday, March 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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